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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-10-12Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>CONTENTS
[01] PM Tsipras receives UN High Commissioner GuterresANA/MPA---Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras received on Monday UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres.Guterres referred to his visit to the island of Lesvos where he had the opportunity to observe the conditions and management of the refugees problem and also referred to the Greek people's solidarity towards the refugees. "It is a very difficult condition but we do whatever possible," said Tsipras [02] SYRIZA will stand by the government and the people, says party's central committee sec' RigasANA/MPA---"SYRIZA will stand by the government and the Greek people in order to be the genuine expression of the social needs to the government," stressed new secretary of SYRIZA Central Committee Panos Rigas in a statement on Monday to ANA-MPA.The priority, on the course to the party's congress, is SYRIZA's organisational development for a broad opening to society, reconstruction and massification of the youth. Our aim is, noted Rigas, the mobilisation of the huge social majority towards a direction of the country's democratic and productive revival. [03] FinMin Tsakalotos meets IMF chief LagardeANA/MPA---The meeting of the Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos with IMF managing director Christine Lagarde took place in a positive climate in Lima, Peru, on the sidelines of the annual summit of the IMF and the World Bank.Tsakalotos noted that Lagarde supports the effort of the Greek government to timely complete the first evaluation that will give the green light for the recapitalization of banks, as scheduled, before January 1, 2016. The minister also stressed that a substantive discussion on debt will then start in order to create the right conditions for Greece to turn the page and exit the crisis. According to IMF sources, the Minister briefed Lagarde on recent developments in Greece, among which the reform program. On her part, Lagarde said that the IMF is prepared to work with the Greek authorities to promote the country's reform program. Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |